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Message no. 1
From: Tumbleweed <DEHRENDORF@******.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
Subject: News and Call
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 11:43:26 +0100
>>>>>[*****Virus_Shielding_Engaged*****

I am standing here in the ruins of Geffen's Main Recording Studio.
Everything is in shambles and there are corpses everywhere. The para-
medics are working overtime trying to fathom who is going to see
another day and who's gone.

Let's start at the beginning.

At 9:03 LoneStar got a distress call by the Janitor of Geffen's Main
Building stating, that somebody had disabled all monitoring cameras
and was just now battering his way into the building. This was followed
by a loud bang and a wet thud. Surprisingly LS really rushed to the
scene (Wonder who bribed 'em this time...) and straight into an ambush.
Three LS COPs drove up and two of them exploded before anybody got out.
The driver of the third was a bit smarter than the average LS cop and
stayed on the street, which probably saved his (and his passengers) hide.
He naturally called for backup.

In the meantime the building was shaken by a series of smaller explosions
starting at the front at Lobby-Level and going up and down the whole
building. Just as the LS backup arrived, the Entrance exploded in a fray
of glass and concrete cutting some of the arriving cops and many innocent
bystanders to bloody ribbons. Then, about 30 minutes after the distress
call every sound inside the building ceased, only the crackling of fire,
the moaning of the injured and the crunching of shattered glass could be
heard.

LoneStar Special Squads are still inside the building searching for
clues to what happened and survivors. Up till now they reported finding
136 dead (including to my horror one of my favourite singers Jackie
Knight and her band) and two survivors (although their chance of regaining
consciousness is 1/500.000). Most of the victims have been killed by explo-
sions and shrapnell, but some are riddled with holes, burned to cinders
or just physically torn apart.

On the whole this 'savage assault (so LS officials) cost the amount of
283 people's lives including 28 LoneStar Agents and some VIPs' (typical
for LS to put it THAT way...)

Ah... the LS 'shoo-ing commando' saw me...

I have to go... ]<<<<<
-- Tumbleweed (Newsflash is a hard Job) <11:15:10/11-18-2054>

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